Hospitals & Asylums
Chapter 2 Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home
§41 Board of Commissioners; composition
The Surgeon General, The Adjutant General, the Quartermaster General, the Chief of Engineers, the Judge Advocate General, the Chief of Finance, and the Governor of the Soldiers' Home shall constitute a board of commissioners for the Soldiers' Home, and the senior in rank of the members thereof shall be the president of said board of commissioners any four of whom shall be quorum for the transaction of business, whose duty it shall be to examine and audit the accounts of the treasurer quarter-yearly, and to visit and inspect the Soldiers' Home at least once in every month. The majority shall also have the power to establish, from time to time, regulations for the general and internal direction of the institution, to be submitted to the Secretary of the Army for approval; and may do any other acts necessary for the Government and interests of the same, as authorized by this chapter.
(R.S. §4815; derived from Mar. 3, 1851, ch. 25 §1, 9 Stat. 595; Mar. 3, 1859, ch. 83, §4, 11 Stat. 434; Mar. 3, 1883, ch. 130, §10, 22 Stat. 565; Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 299, §1, 35 Stat. 1004; May 11, 1926, ch. 285, 44 Stat. 499; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, §205(a), 61 Stat. 501; Repealed. Pub. L. 101–510, div. A, title XV, §1532(b)(1)–(3), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1733; eff. Nov. 5, 1991) (The Department of War was designated the Department of the Army and the title of the Secretary of War was changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205 (a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205 (a) of act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956. ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted "Title 10, Armed Forces" which in sections 3011-3013 continued the military Department of the Army under the administrative supervision of a Secretary of the Army; For transfer of certain membership functions, insofar as they pertain to the Air Force, which functions were not previously transferred from the Secretary of the Army to the Secretary of the Air Force, see Secretary of Defense Transfer Order No. 40 App. C(3) 1 July 22, 1949)